Understanding Media Culture -- Society, Theory and Mass Communication (Series of Translations on Culture and Communication)

Author: (English) Nick and others
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Publish Date: 2003-04-03
Features: The author of "Understanding Media Culture: Social Theory and Mass Communication" also wrote "Culture, Ideology, and Socialism: Raymond Williams and EP Thompson" (1995), "The Evolution of Media: Globalization, Ethics, and Morality" (1999), "Culture and the Rights and Obligations of Citizenship" (2001), and others. The author critically examines various approaches in contemporary social theory that attempt to explore the role of media in cultural production and reproduction, elaborates on the relationship between general social theory and a series of theories related to media and information communication, and re-evaluates issues such as ideology, structure, and agency, as well as the role of media in shaping norms and the rights and obligations of citizens.